Liam Stout
Creative AI Lead
Hat Trick Productions
About the Speaker
Liam is Creative AI Lead at Hat Trick Productions, where he explores how generative AI can transform the development, financing and production of human-led storytelling across both digital and linear content. His background spans film and TV development, international co-productions, animation, digital publishing, and venture-backed startups. He holds a Double-First from the National Film and Television School’s Creative Business MA and has previously consulted on creative AI strategy for media companies, focusing on workflow automation, ethical frameworks, and AI-native content formats. Liam is passionate about reimagining how stories are created and owned in an age of infinite content, and is especially excited by the role of AI in empowering a new generation of storytellers and formats
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Authenticity Sells: What the Creator Economy Can Teach Film and TV
We now live in a world in which 20millions hours of content are uploaded daily onto YouTube alone, and broadcasters are pivoting to engage with a younger audience by putting increasing amounts of their content onto digital platforms. A world in which branded content is increasingly important. In this rapidly evolving world what can Film and TV learn from the creator economy? In traditional broadcasting we have been trained to be competitive, to “win” commissions. However now to exploit all the opportunities in digital do we all need to be looking more to collaboration – with brands, with platforms, with other storytellers? Digital native producers and creators really understand the data and the analytics and how to adapt around this information. Failing is now so much cheaper and very much part of the development process. What does all of this mean for those of us working in traditional broadcasting? Where are the threats and where are the opportunities?


